Hello, I’m Daisy Cousens.
Welcome to This Week in Social Justice.
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This week’s biggest and baddest social justice fails are the mainstream media’s dirty dirty
smear campaign against famed YouTuber and now UKIP candidate Carl “Sargon of Akkad”
Benjamin, the Melbourne vegan restaurant that charged an 18% “man tax” for male customers
in order to reflect the gender pay gap that’s closing it’s doors, and depending on how
long I feel like talking about the first two topics we may even have time for a bonus topic.
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YouTube’s favourite son Sargon of Akkad, whose human name is Carl Benjamin, has taken
his classical liberal philosophising off the internet and into British politics, as UKIP’s
South West MEP candidate.
And needless to say, as a popular public figure who is very proudly anti-political correctness
and pro-free speech running for the party that was instrumental in ushering Brexit in,
the mainstream media has responded in a way that is, for lack of a better word, typical.
Rather than combatting his arguments with facts and logic, regressive leftist establishment
media journalists have had their best necromancers go through all of Sargon’s years long internet
history, and found every little thing he’s said that could possibly be compromised, taken
out of context, and used to smear him as somehow immoral.
The big one they have all seemed to latch onto was this tweet from 2016, which Sargon
directed at Labour MP and noted uber feminist Jess Phillips, when she relayed concerns about
abuse of women online.
While out of context it looks bleak, the easily discoverable, well documented circumstances
surrounding the tweet are that it was said in response to Jess Phillips assertion that
we should regulate the internet to police certain comments, which could amount to censorship
“I crafted this tweet with the express intention of proving this point.
The phrase “I wouldn’t even rape you” cannot be interpreted as a threat or a promise
of action, it is literally a promise of inaction and yet is consistently framed as such.
This tweet was deliberately crafted piece of political theatre with the understanding
it would be considered immoral but not illegal.
I specifically chose this phrase because I knew that the political gatekeepers in Westminster,
who simply ignore anyone that they do not personally like, would not be able to resist
this.
I was purposefully pushing their buttons in order to guarantee their response, and at
the time I felt that it was the only way i could even get them to acknowledge my existence.
And one has to admit this has been a remarkable success.”
Fairly straightforward, I would have thought.
Another catalyst for Sargon’s tweet was Jess laughing in Parliament at, and also trying
to block the suggestion that there should be a debate about men’s issues on International
Men’s Day, just as there is a debate on Women’s Issue on
International Women’s Day.
Whether or not you agree with Sargon tweeting this, it was very clearly not a threat of
assault, nor was it to be taken as anything other than a pointed, satirical, meta comment,
as is much of the so-called politically incorrect statements he has made, all of which are easily
contextualised if you watch his YouTube channel.
Which, when harangued at a recent UKIP press conference, he made perfectly clear Journalists,
on the other hand, are of course not only ignoring this, but dragging up things that
are so laughably taken out of context it’s enough to make you lose even more faith in
the mainstream media than we all already have.
I mean, seriously, the headlines are like a caricature of themselves But over the weekend,
one of them went too far.
This headline appeared in the Daily Mail, which refers to a live stream Sargon did a
number of years ago with a victim of childhood abuse.
On the surface, that look pretty bad.
But the live stream itself was actually an abstract discussion about the issue, in which
the victim said he enjoyed what happened to him.
That was the context around which Sargon’s comments were constructed, and in fact, later
in the stream, Sargon disagrees with the victim, and says he believes the age of consent should
be 18, to cater for those who are damaged by that kind of event.
Which you’d think the journalist would know, but apparently notHow a qualified journalist
can operate with this lack of integrity and abundant unprofessionalism is just beyond
me.
I mean, what do these people even get paid for.
So that’s one highly defamatory thing about this article.
The second one is even worse.
The article makes reference to this apparent direct message sent by Sargon on twitter to
an unknown recipient, and presents it as fact.
Au contraire; that DM is actually a fake, which was publicly documented by Sargon Sargon
has stated on Facebook that he will be taking legal action over this article, which is fair
enough.
All in all, it is a reflection of the unscrupulous, deceitful, petty nature of the evidently regressive
leftist journos in the British mainstream media, who pose as centrists but whose raging,
malicious bias is on full display in their obsession with tearing down their opponents
on a moral level, rather than attacking their arguments.
So revealing.
Enormous social justice fail on this one.A vegan feminist café in Melbourne, which notably
had an 18% surcharge, or “man tax” for any male customers, has officially closed
its doors.
The café, which is called Handsome Her and run by lesbians, has been operating for the
last two years, and has of course been subject to much backlash for it’s arguably misandrist
activity.
Now, there are a lot of people having a bit of a gloat over the closure of the café;
but the owners want to make a few things clear.
First of all, the “man tax” is optional, and all proceeds from it go to charity.
Second of all, it’s not lack of money as to why the café is closing; the owner simply
describe themselves as young, educated, and off on their next adventure
”We are not closing because of:
A) Male tears or misogynistic vitriol from men's rights activists.
We’re lesbians, we’re quite used witnessing the fragility of the male ego which literally
cannot compute the idea of a woman who is not interested in them.
These abusive comments have been mostly amusing, only reinforced our views about how toxic
sexism is, and great motivation for us to keep up the good work
B)
Not making enough money.
If you've been in you know we are doing just fine.
Our fans and regulars can smell a rat when it comes to fake google reviews from #sadmen.
Most of our male customers have happily paid above and beyond the optional surcharge (mantax)
which we donate to charity.
Handsome Her was somewhat of a social experiment for us outside of our professional realms,
and we have seen that it works to put our politics to the forefront in life and in business”
Okay, let’s have a look at this.
First and most obvious, an 18% man tax to represent the gender pay gap is stupid, because
the gender pay gap actually isn’t real, at least, not in the way it’s presented
by these kinds of fourth wave feminists Second; according to these gals, the negative
comments on social media they garnered because of the man tax weren’t because their idea
was inherently stupid, but because of, and I quote, "good old-fashioned misogyny and
prejudice".
This reflects the delusion than feminists suffer from, which is that it’s only men
who disagree with things like this.
Plenty of women also oppose this kind of radical feminism, which the regressive left routinely
chooses to ignore unless it’s shoved in their faces by women like me.
Third; another comment made by the girls on Facebook was that the criticism of the café
"showed us how fragile masculinity is and solidified the necessity for us to confront
and dismantle patriarchy".
This reflects another feminist delusion; that any hint of men disgagreeing with them, or
defending themselves, is some how reflective of their masculinity being somehow fragile,
and how sexist they are.
You see, feminists dislike the male species, whatever they choose to tell you, and believe
that men, given the fact they have committed the original sin of being born in an evil
form, should simply sit there and take any and all abuse.
Not to sit there and take it means they are somehow immoral, and should be punished for
daring to speak out of turn, or deny their culpability in the alleged mass oppression
of women.
It is so stupid.
Look, good on these girls for having the guts to express their opinions, and pursue this
kind of business venture, and stay tough in the face of what I’m sure much of which
were some quite vile comments.
But this is the kind of deluded, aggressive, vicious, malicious, anti-male Marxism that
I really dislike on a very base level.
I know the type of woman.
So despite the fact I admire the entrepreneurial spirit of these particular café owners, due
to their low key malice and factual inaccuracies, I’m going to have to give them quite a large
social justice fail.
Bonus topic!
We have a bonus topic this week.
In the spirit of political satire, footage has gone viral of an eight year old girl doing
a frighteningly accurate imitation Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio “Red” Cortez.
Check it out: Okay, look, I have to be fair here.
While this little girl clearly has a talent for performance and is as cute as a button,
I have always said I do not like it when little kids get involved in politics somehow.
It inevitably comes through adult figures in their lives, usually teachers or parents,
rather than their own intellectual capacity to analyse the world and form their own view.
And aside from anything else; kids should be running around climbing trees, not messing
with political activism.
I criticised the teachers of the children and teens doing that silly School Strike for
Climate Change, I have to apply the same standard here, although this little girl is nowhere
near as extreme as that climate change farce.
Now who knows; this little girl may be a political genius who watches the news and has absolutely
made up her own mind about Red Cortez, and if that’s the case, good for her.
But if it’s her parents imposing their own views on her, then I can’t really condone
it, no matter how adorable and talented she is.